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    By Edith Nesbit
    T Fisher Unwin   London
    8" by 5.5" 9-374 [10]pp
    The first edition of the final work in Edith Nesbit's Psammead trilogy, a continuation of the story told in 'Five Children and It' and 'The Phoenix and the Carpet'.
    By Edith Nesbit

    1906 The Story of the Amulet

    T Fisher Unwin   London
    8" by 5.5" 9-374 [10]pp
    The first edition of the final work in Edith Nesbit's Psammead trilogy, a continuation of the story told in 'Five Children and It' and 'The Phoenix and the Carpet'.
    £185.00
    : 1kgs / : 979F23
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    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    In this charming first edition, first impression, the Psammead advises the children to purchase an ancient Egyptian amulet, with serves as a portal to the past. 

    Gore Vidal described the work as 'a time machine story, only the device is not a machine but an Egyptian amulet whose other half is lost in the past. By saying certain powerful words, the amulet becomes a gate through which the children are able to visit the past or future'. He termed it 'a story of considerable beauty'.

    With forty-eight full page and vignette illustrations from popular illustrator of children's works, H. R. Millar. Collated, complete.

    From political activist and children's writer Edith Nesbit, author of such novels as 'The Railway Children' and 'Five Children and It'.

    With eight pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear, and former owner's pencil inscription to front pastedown.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright. Back strip a touch age toned, with light shelf wear to back strip tail. Front joint tail starting, with board firmly held. Rear hinge strained and a touch tender. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright.

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